The MVP candidates are Josh Whyte, McMaster's Keenan Jeppesen (13th), Josh Gibson-Bascombe, McGill's Matthew Thornhill (20th), and Christian Upshaw (10th). Someone with more time could go through and make a statistical argument for one of them, but if it comes down to Joshua East and West, the Ottawa version has about 300 more minutes to his credit, probably making up for the No. 8 vs. No. 5 ranking. (A future improvement to this ranking would consider the quality of opposition, for any of you about to load and fire your "JGB got to play RMC!" cannon.) My uninformed vote goes to either Whyte or Glover (who wasn't nominated), but Gibson-Bascombe is hard to argue with.

I also won't bore you with a detailed comparison of the MUBL draft results to this list, but Andrew surprisingly finished third in the league despite having the second-, fourth-, fifth-, and twelfth-ranked players, and our first round picks ended up at 2-13-38-9-1-3, with some guy choosing Mark McLaughlin when, in hindsight, there were dozens of better choices with the third pick.

What's also kind of impressive is, of the 10 players listed above, seven made last year's top 10. Compare that with the women, who only had four repeating top-10 players this year, and only three last year. If Mitch Leger had played enough to make the top 25 in 2008-2009, then essentially every top-10 player this year would have been in last year's top 25. And with only three players in their fifth year of eligibility (Bekkering, McCleery, Gibson-Bascombe), one would expect many of these players to be leading the rankings next year.